(Me up at does) by E. E. Cummings
(Me up at does)
E. E. CummingsMe up at does
out of the floor
quietly Starea poisoned mouse
still who alive
is asking What
have i done thatYou wouldn’t have
MARGINALIA
Oh you look so nice tonight. But but but in a world of buts, you are still, and always will be, not for me.
ABOUT E. E. CUMMINGS
Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). In 1922 he published his first book, The Enormous Room, a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys, appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed: XLI Poems, also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent… (more)
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S R
More my heart could not leap….. His words have uplifted, and encouraged me. He is always in my creating.
Judith
I learned about this poem during my final year at the university, and it has changed me since then. I really admire his attempt to break free from conventions and routines, and it is pathetic that humans think very highly of ourselves. Solely my kind of interpretation.
jimmy nuetron
my brain hurt reading this
fpahltz
Why the upper case cases, Me, Stare, What, and You?
Thea
Forget the structure. It is the pathos of the innocent suffering that queries the reflective conscience in the midst of does.